Talk:EMC TA

Misleading?
I think the following is seriously misleading:
 * The TAs were unique in that they were the only small, lightweight streamliner motive power to be truly separate locomotives. It shared this trait with the roughly contemporary EA, E1 and E2, all built in 1937, but they were all full-size locomotives intended to pull much heavier trains, while the TAs were pocket-sized, styled to match the short, lightweight trains they hauled. 1937 was very much the year that the passenger diesel locomotive evolved from the integrated streamliner. Future locomotives would follow the direction taken by the EA, E1 and E2, full-size locomotives to pull lightweight but full-size passenger cars, and thus the TA was destined to be a unique offshoot from the evolutionary path taken, but it nonetheless shows that the concept of a separate locomotive had finally and fairly decisively taken hold.

It's true that the TAs had less horsepower than than the E series -- they had one 16 cylinder Winton 201A versus two 12 cylinder 201As -- 1,000 horsepower versus 1,800. They were also geared much slower and weighed 76% of the EA's 300,000 pounds. But, they were only 15% shorter and were the same height and width. They are, in fact, 10 feet longer than the FT, which shared the same power train. So, far from being an offshoot, they were in the direct line of the FT. Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  14:50, 7 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes it is misleading. Separate locomotives had been pulling lightweight streamliners since 1936 (M-10002 and up, Denver Zephyr locos).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.208.11.42 (talk) 13:13, 14 August 2016 (UTC)